A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the powerful daimyo Tabu Ukyou. Unexpectedly, Kanemi received a lenient sentence for his crime and is allowed to return to his clan after only one year of imprisonment. Following his return, Kanemi is faced with the death of his wife, Mutsue. Thereafter, Kanemi lives with and cares for his wife's niece, Satoo, who has secret affections for Kanemi and expresses them by helping change his bleak outlook on life. Meanwhile, Kanemi's develops his unique "bird-catching" sword technique which he will soon put to test in battle for the first time against the fearsome swordsman, Hayatonosho Obiya.

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

The third work in the "Not in Textbooks!" series, which is a live-action movie of a popular love com...

The fourth in a school romantic comedy that features a popular comic by Kazuto Okada starring Ayaka ...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Yumi Fukuzawa is an ordinary first year student at Lillian Girls' Academy. By chance Yumi meets seco...

Shuji Mimura works as a broadcast writer. He learns that he doesn't have much time left to live. He ...

A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.

An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterio...

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle ...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the ...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

Young Lord Genjiro, who abandoned his castle to live as a commoner in Edo, returns home to restore p...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series

The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.

It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindica...

A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed...